I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

It's a simple formula do your best and somebody might like it.

Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

Dee Dee Dee dosen't mean mentally retarded. It means stupid. This song goes out to all the stupid people out there. Your gonna find this song hilarious, and you don't even know it's about you.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

I like girls, but I prefer having a girlfriend. I like having someone I can spoil.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.